Eyam is a celebration of the strength of human spirit in the face of seemingly impossible odds, highlighting the power and comfort of community " a stirring watch.
Following its current acclaimed production of Square Rounds at the Finborough, Proud Haddock continues its season commemorating the centenary of the end of the First World War with a major p…
The fact that 42nd Street first came out in 1933 doesn't date this wonderful revival of the show. It provides some good old-fashioned singing, dancing and tapping. Lots and LOTS of tapping.
Iris Theatre has made its first family show foray outside Covent Garden in years and, judging by initial critical reactions to its adaptation of Arabian Nights and transformation of historic…
Meaningful debate, clever thought and persuasiveness get overshadowed by ego manifested as sneering, sarcasm and physical violence.
Written by Lydia Rynne and directed by Kay Michael, Hear Me Howl looks at Jess (Alice Pitt-Carter) a young professional whose life mirrors many women in Britain.
Now at last my prayer has been answered. Deafinitely Theatre currently brings a bilingual approach to 4.48 Psychosis " spoken English and British Sign Language " to the play, using an all-ma…
It is in the telling of the tales, though, that Arabian Nights really comes alive. Iris Theatre uses a spectacular array of puppets, from a towering, glowing-eyed King Shahryar to birds, shi…
You are not supposed in 2018 " George Orwell's Thought Police have certainly arrived " to notice or comment on the body shapes of actors.
An evening with the extraordinary gentleman Brian Blessed promised to be informative, fascinating and barmy. It was all of those things and more.
Eyam, the final production of The Globe's summer season, drags in the autumn with a grim tale of human endurance and sacrifice, reimagining for the stage the true story of a plague-ridden pa…
Iwan Rheon and Heida Reed star in the West End premiere of Dawn King's thriller Foxfinder, now playing at the Ambassadors Theatre. Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews…
Arinze Kene's visceral writing for Misty places us from the offset within the throbbing organ that is London; packed night buses in its veins, we are its cells colliding against each other w…
Losing Venice at the Orange Tree Theatre is a remarkable rediscovery by this ever-enterprising venue and is a well-crafted and elegantly written curiosity.
Arabian Nights is highly recommended for an evening of high-quality escapism and entertainment, presented by a talented and incredibly hard-working cast " with a little help from some seriou…
One woman, her drums and a whole lotta rage against the patriarchy, Hear Me Howl is a defiant roar at the Old Red Lion Theatre.
Dani Dyer will be joining her father Danny Dyer in Nativity! The Musical this Christmas at the Eventim Apollo, from 19 to 31 December.
Two new music releases " Renée Fleming tackles Broadway classics in style, and The Quentin Dentin Show releases its cast recording
However, by the time the whole auditorium is on its feet for the finale, dancing along to Y Viva Espana, you'd be forgiven for forgetting how many cracks in the Benidorm carapace have been p…
Queen Margaret is an extraordinary production which combines the insight and depth of a Shakespearian history play with contemporary humour and ingenuity.
Sylvia is one of the best shows I've seen this year. So therefore what follows isn't a review, not really (I'm not going to tell you what the very evident issues were, for a start). It's jus…
Following this week's opening of Arabian Nights, her adaptation of ancient Arabic folk tales One Thousand and One Nights, award-winning playwright Nessah Muthy premieres her new, contemporar…
Touching The Void is a theatrical triumph. David Greig, Tom Morris and the team have created a piece of theatre that excels beyond mere adaptation.
Tartuffe could be an episode from a TV sitcom and proves, if any proof was necessary, that a satire written in 1664 " albeit much rewritten and refined by 21st-century adaptors " is still ca…
Get ready. Take aim. Fire.... Sense of Place Theatre launches with a brand-new London production of The Frontier Trilogy, Jethro Compton's 2015 triptych of three short plays set in the Ameri…